New brands land at Changi T2

Changi Airport Group (CAG) has announced that luxury watch brand Chopard was joined the line-up of The Fashion Gallery outlet (pictured) at Singapore Changi airport terminal two, operated by LS Travel Retail Asia/Pacific. The first store dedicated to the Le SportSac casual bag brand has also opened at T2, while LSTR ASPAC opened a Discover Singapore souvenir concept at T3.

According to CAG, the airport handled 4.33m passengers in January, 1.9% up against the same month in 2012. Air traffic movements were also up by 2.2% to 28,200 flights, against a comparably higher base last year as the Lunar New Year holidays were in January.

Growing country markets in terms of air travel demans include Australia, Japan and Thailand, with traffic to and from Sydney, Tokyo and Bangkok to Changi increasing by 10% or more.